August 20, 2025 • 29 mins
What happens when your side hustle becomes more than just a hobby? In this episode of Cut The Tie, Thomas Helfrich sits down with Danielle Turner, a travel agent specializing in Disney experiences, fitness apparel founder, and full-time professional who’s proving that betting on yourself doesn’t require an MBA—it just requires passion and persistence.
After being laid off from her dream corporate job, Danielle turned some of the hardest moments of her life into opportunities to create businesses that reflect her true passions. From rebranding a t-shirt venture into a fitness apparel company to building a Disney-focused travel agency, Danielle shares how she cut ties with self-doubt and limiting beliefs to pursue a more purpose-driven path.
About Danielle Turner
Danielle Turner is the owner of Firebird Travel Agency, specializing in Disney vacations, and the founder of a newly rebranded fitness apparel company. What started as side hustles during personal and professional setbacks has grown into two purpose-driven businesses that align with her passions.
Through her work, Danielle helps people rediscover joy—whether through magical travel experiences or apparel that reflects personality and fitness. She also runs the YouTube channel Disney by Danny, where she shares insider tips, hidden Disney gems, and local Atlanta travel insights.
In this episode, Thomas and Danielle discuss:
- Defining success on your own terms
Danielle explains why success isn’t just about the paycheck—it’s about doing something you love so much that it doesn’t feel like work. - Turning setbacks into stepping stones
After being laid off from her dream corporate job, Danielle didn’t fold—she created. Both her t-shirt company and travel agency were born out of some of the toughest periods of her life, proving that hardship can spark entrepreneurship. - From side hustles to purpose-driven work
What began as a t-shirt side hustle evolved into a fitness apparel brand, while her love for Disney turned into a thriving travel agency. Danielle discusses why building businesses around her passions gave her a sense of fulfillment no corporate paycheck ever did.
Key Takeaways
- Don’t let habits hold you hostage
Doing what you’ve always done will only get you what you’ve always had. - Purpose over paycheck
Danielle learned that chasing money without meaning only leads to emptiness. By building businesses rooted in purpose, she’s found fulfillment—even when the income isn’t yet at full-time level. - Failure isn’t final—it’s feedback
Danielle emphasizes that you might fail, but “what if you fly?” Every setback became a lesson that pushed her closer to alignment, purpose, and ultimately, success on her terms.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Cut the Tie podcast.
Hi, I'm your host, thomasHelfer, and I'm on a mission to
help you cut the tie to whateverit is holding you back from
success, and the success thatyou've defined for yourself, not
success that someone else hasdefined for you.
And I'm joined today byDanielle Turner.
Ms Turner, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello, I'm doing well .
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm good.
I really like your broadcastnetwork here in Atlanta and all
the things you've built throughthe years.
No, not Zed Turner.
Take a moment just to introduceyourself and what it is you do.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So my name is Danielle.
I actually I own two businesses.
I have a travel agency and Ihave a newly rebranded fitness
apparel company Plus.
I work a nine to five.
So I'm a newly rebrandedfitness apparel company, plus I
work a nine to five.
So I'm a busy girl.
My travel agency I tell peopleall the time I am a travel agent
(00:55):
that specializes in Disney.
I am not a Disney travel agent,but because I love all things
related to the mouse, it justmade sense to specialize in
Disney.
And then I own a fitnessapparel company.
It started out as just a basict-shirt company and it just
slowly took a new form into afitness apparel company.
(01:17):
So busy, busy, busy, busy.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Do you find yourself in the entrepreneur or
entrepreneur?
You feel like everything you'redoing is turning to shit or
you're like I'm just sidehustling stuff until it gets
taken off more.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This is the side hustles until they take it out
Like I'm.
This is my, my passive incomethat's going to ride me into
retirement.
So that's where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I'm going to come out of order.
Why not just make it what youdo now?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know, if it gets to that point one day, I will
gladly take it.
I mean, yeah, I'd gladly likestop doing the hustle and bustle
of the nine to five and work onmy businesses all the time.
But as of right now, I stillgot to eat, so I still got to do
the nine to five.
You know, still need a roofover my head.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, we'll talk about that in your journey a
little bit.
But you know, as entrepreneurswho are listening and watching
here, you know it's great tostart a side hustle.
I mean if you don't hate yourjob, and it's okay, it's
enjoyable, it pays well,whatever else, you know it's a
security and it's and it issecure.
That's a great way to bebecause the extra money you make
it's fun, it's it's like you,it actually keeps the.
(02:29):
The nine to five sometimes atleast I found was enjoyable
because you're like your mind isactually working on something.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, no, you're still working somewhere yeah,
and the thing is you, you meetpeople on your nine to five who,
when you tell them about yourside, hustle they.
They're like oh, I'm into that.
And then you find new customerswhere you're not even really
trying.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
That's great, I love it.
It works.
Before we get into your sidehustles and your journey a
little bit, I want you to definesuccess on your terms.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Um, success on my terms is actually doing
something you love and thatyou're having a good time doing
it, to the point where itdoesn't feel like work.
Um, I think that's the best wayI can define it, because I
think we've all been to that jobwhere you wake up angry because
you got to go to work, you sitin the parking lot with the
attitude because you got to goin the building and then you sit
there grumpy all day longbecause you got to be there and
you clock watch all day long.
And then the finalist when youwalk out of the building.
But you know you got to get upin the morning and do it again
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the next day.
To me, success is when thisdoes not feel like a job and you
lose track of time becauseyou're enjoying what you're
doing.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I like where you're at with that.
I can see where your goal isgoing.
You want to just not work butmake money.
There's a difference.
That is a great definition.
Your success definition willabsolutely change once you get
to that.
It's going to immediately flip.
As soon as you get to that,you're like new one.
I like that.
That's a solid definitionbecause it's in the moment, it's
(04:06):
real, it's now, but it's alsoit sounds like a giant motivator
for you to get there.
Like I said, oftentimes otherthings are secure when you can
have that dream Like I'm justtrying to get financially secure
, I want more time with myfamily.
You're like no, I want this,this is for me and I want to do
that.
And I want to do that becauseyou got one life.
I like yeah yeah.
Fantastic.
Um, tell me about your journeya little bit and, given that you
(04:27):
define success, you know theway you have what's been the
biggest kind of tie to startworking towards that, or the
biggest tie you've had to cut,or what the restrictions are to
help you get to that Cause.
You're not quite there yet, butit sounds like that's a success
definition.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What are you gonna do about it?
Tell me about your journey.
So the way I actually got here.
So I started my t-shirt company.
First, both of my businessesactually were born literally out
of the worst times of my life.
I had been working.
I've been working since I was15 years old and never been
fired, never been laid off,never, literally, would go from
when I decided to change a job,go from one job, maybe have a
(05:07):
couple of weeks off, and intothe next one, Never really had
any time off.
And then I got my dreamcorporate job and then I got
laid off from it and you wouldhave thought the world was about
to cave in the way.
I was like, oh my God, I'venever been unemployed in my life
.
And so sitting there just kindof thinking like, well, what am
(05:30):
I going to do while I'm in theprocess of looking for a job?
At the time my daughter hadjust went off to college and I'm
like, well, you know what, letme, let me figure out something
creative, cause I've always beenkind of creative.
So I'm like, let me figure outsomething creative to do.
So that's how the t-shirtcompany was born, with the
intention of pass this off toher Once I get a job which I
eventually got a job like sixmonths I got a job I'm going to
(05:53):
pass this off to her.
It'll be a passive stream ofincome for her.
She can take it and run with itand it's hers.
And then she was like I want todo that, you can keep that.
So I was like, oh okay, um, andso then I literally just kind
of put it on hold for a littlewhile because it was not, it
wasn't a passion for me, it wasa.
It was a.
(06:13):
It was like a means to an endfor me at that point, um and
then moved to Atlanta, um fromMilwaukee and trying to figure
out what to do.
Um, um from Milwaukee andtrying to figure out what to do,
um, uh, a friend and a goodmentor of mine who, um, actually
is a real estate agent, sold meand sold me my house and then
(06:33):
sold it.
When I sold it, Um, she's likehey, uh, I got this travel
agency business.
What do you think?
And I'm like she's like youlove to travel.
I know you love, love Disney.
I think this might be a goodfit for you.
Just think about it, check itout.
So I took a couple months,thought about it, check.
I was like you know what, yeah,this, this could be fun, this
could probably be fun.
(06:54):
Atlanta was a rough transitionfor me, so I was just, oh gosh,
it was rough.
Coming from the Midwest to atotally different culture,
totally different I mean side ofthe country, it was just raw
for me.
And so I'm like, well, yeah, Ijust I need something to do.
(07:14):
So sure, I'll try it.
And fell in love with it,totally immersed myself in it,
figured out, oh, I can do thiswith this and I can do this with
this, and just and and justkind of went like on this
tangent on both sides of I cando both of them and I can do
this, and started having a ballwith both of them.
Um, I totally rebranded thet-shirt company into a fitness
(07:34):
apparel company because I'm like, if I'm going to do this, I
need to do something that Ienjoy and that I love.
I don't really care aboutt-shirts, but I do care about
fitness.
So let's turn this into afitness apparel company and
we'll do kind of a little bit ofeverything.
So I think the but the tie thatI really had to cut was the
mindset of that.
(07:56):
I needed some type of specialskillset to build my businesses
or to be successful in mybusinesses.
I'm not, like, a marketingexpert, I'm not a finance expert
, but I've always had a head forbusiness, like I can see a good
idea and I know how to build onthat idea and grow that idea.
And I've had several business.
(08:17):
I've always been, like, kind ofhad that entrepreneurial
mindset.
I've had more businesses failthan I've had succeed, because I
did things that I was good atbut I didn't necessarily care
about or that I didn't, where Ireally didn't love.
So this time I kind of decidedlet me flip the script and let
me find something I love andthen get really good at it.
And that's where where I'm atright now.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I like that.
You're a, but what was thebiggest time of what part of the
mindset that you could do it?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It was actually I had to.
It was the mindset that I hadto have like a business degree
or like I have to know how torun a business from end to end
and all that stuff.
Because I don't.
I'm winging it and figuring itout as I go and if sometimes I
do stuff and I'm like that was aterrible idea, I mean sometimes
(09:10):
I think that was a great idea.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So that's and listen, I think what you find is a lot
of uh.
This is where coaching reallyhelps, if you can make the
investment.
Uh, because you know I wouldhave benefited myself five years
ago.
Not the autobiography, but justyou.
You know, I moved from the westtwo down here to atlanta.
I'm not pretty easy becauseit's warmer, it's nicer and you
know, whatever.
But all right, that part's easyand you know anyway we won't go
(09:33):
down that.
But but the, the.
The point being is, uh, fiveyears ago, you just fake it till
you make it kind of like I'llfigure this out, you know, you
just kind of, you do the bestyou can based on the training
you've had in life, right, anduh, and then you figure out that
other people are kind of justguessing and you just and you
and then, but then you get allover the place and I will say
that in anyone listening it'syou would have saved a lot of
(09:55):
money in time If you had a coach.
That would just 90 days get you, just get you pointed in the
right direction.
I say that prominently.
I do this coaching and not the.
You know anyway, the pointbeing is, when I see people do
this, they're so much more, theyhave more clarity than ever,
because they're like, okay, Iwas going to try, like, don't
try that, but here's why that'sgoing to.
It's going to move you thin,stay narrow, anyway.
(10:17):
So it's perfect.
And you discovered somethingthat happens a lot often with
with an entrepreneur, right Isthat it's the three P's, because
I call it so you have your,your passion, your, uh, your
potential, which are your skills, and then your, the problem you
solve.
And if you don't have all threeof those of solid size, meaning
like you have no passion, thelittle Venn diagrams too small
(10:38):
for you to focus, and if youhave no potential, you can't do
it.
And if there's no problem,you're actually solving that
people, you just can't do it.
So you, you solve that by like,oh, I gotta get the passion
bubble up because I don't careabout this, so let's get
something we care about.
I love that wonderful, um, okay, so do you remember the moment,
do you remember the moment whenyou knew, oh, my gosh, I had to
(10:58):
change my mindset?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
um, um, yes.
So two businesses, twodifferent moments.
The first moment with thet-shirt company was with the
moment of I built this businessup.
Like, I mean, I did all thework.
I got my LLC, I own mytrademark, I put a lot of work
(11:21):
into starting this business up,business up.
And then, when my daughter saidI don't really want to do this,
I'm like, well, okay, and itsat dormant for a few years.
Um, and I'm like you put allthis money and all this work and
you, you've got a closet fullof inventory that you're not
even trying to sell because youjust don't care that much about
it.
Um, I think that was the ahamoment of what do you care about
(11:42):
?
Because you built this up toofar to let it go?
Um, of what do you care aboutbecause you built this up too
far to let it go?
Um, so what do you care about?
And then I realized I'm like,well, I like to work out, I like
fitness and I like I like the.
I think that a lot of people,you see that you go to the gym,
you see people and they've gotthe.
You know, they got the muscleshirts on and they got their
(12:02):
racer racks on and they, youknow, whatever, but it doesn't
everybody looks the same.
So I'm like I racks on and they, you know whatever, but it
doesn't everybody looks the same.
So I'm like I want somethingthat's going to.
You know you're going to getyour workout in, but you
showcase your personality.
So I'm like take your love ofthe quirky saying on a t-shirt
and take your love of fitnessand put them together and there
you go.
So I think that was the the theaha moment with that one.
(12:25):
That was the aha moment withthat one With the travel agency.
It was the moment of rememberingwhy or how I got into it.
Like, how did you get to thispoint?
Versus, just okay, I love totravel.
I can send people on trips.
Anybody can go on any searchengine and book themselves a
trip.
Why use me?
Like, what makes me special?
(12:48):
The way I fell in love withtravel was when I had gotten
laid off from my job.
I was so down and so low andI'm like I just needed to find
something that would just makeme smile a little bit.
And at that point it wasliterally watching YouTube
videos of Disney rides andDisney POVs and and vloggers,
(13:09):
like walking around the parksand telling you about the new
food and telling you about thisand telling you about that, and
that was like the only thingthat kind of kept me up and
positive during that time periodin my life.
And so I spent years, likeyears, sitting every night like
it was my job, sitting thereevery night watching those
videos, and when my mentor waslike you know more about Disney
(13:30):
than anybody I know, why are younot working, like to do
something with this?
And I'm like, yeah, the momentfor that.
A couple of years ago I took myme and my brother did a
sibling's trip to Disney.
He had been to Disney beforebut he had always been with,
like his kids and his grandkidsand he went to like the like
(13:50):
Magic Kingdom, like the like thekid parks.
My favorite part is Epcot andso I took him.
I'm like we're going to go toEpcot and so we're in Epcot and
I'm telling him about this andlike all this history I mean
just random Disney facts thatnobody but a Disney nerd would
know and he is looking at me andhe was like what you could work
for Disney.
He was like I would never have.
(14:12):
I'm like you know, yeah, thiswall here.
They have to block this walloff because you know, people
would drink around the WorldPavilion and they get drunk and
they try to climb the Mexicowall and that's why they put
this, this big wall here.
And he was like, why do youknow this stuff?
And so I thought about it andI'm like what agent, what that
doesn't specialize in Disneywould know this stuff to tell
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somebody who wants to book atrip?
This stuff, what agent would beable to tell somebody, hey, if
you go to this park at this timeof day, on this day in the sun
shines on this site you'll see ahidden mini Mickey silhouette
that only shows up one day ofthe year it happens to be on
Mickey and Minnie's anniversaryand they're like, who would know
that, besides somebody like me?
(14:54):
And so that's when I was like,take that and turn that into
something.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Did you take some of that information to make your
own YouTube videos off of that?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I also have a YouTube channel, that's a boy.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's usually a compliment and from a marketing
standpoint, uh, verify you as,hey, I really know disney and
watch my channel.
I'll give you some insight.
You'll never.
You know you people, and you'rejust you know, you, just you
know, take it yep, so I I dohave a a youtube you got a shape
of the plugger right now.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
This is okay, it's called.
It's called this by daddy disdis um short for disney's called
.
It's called Diz by Danny DizD-I-S short for Disney.
It's it's.
So.
It's not all Disney content.
It's because I live in Atlanta.
I can't go to the parks all thetime.
I just did a Disney series andI'm like uploading those videos
right now.
I was just in Disney two weeksago.
So what it is?
(15:43):
It supports my travel agencybecause what I do is I go around
Atlanta also and I have thisseries called Tourist in your
Own Town, and so I go arounddifferent parts of Atlanta and
showcase like, hey, if you evercome to Atlanta to visit, we've
got this, we've got that, here'ssome history, here's something
fun to do.
You know that type of stuff.
And then I also get to theparks as often as I can and then
(16:04):
I upload those videos and doPOV of Disney and I think my
niche.
That I say is because my kidsare grown and so is to.
You can still be a Disney adult, you can still go to Disney and
not look like a weirdo becauseyou're an adult by yourself with
no children, and have a blast,which I absolutely did.
I wore myself out, but I had agood time.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think you need to move to Florida and just get the
pass.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
That's probably going to be the next move.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Or be like, but like, if you can be like, hey, listen
, I'll, I'll, I'll.
Uh, you know you can be aguided tour of Disney, like when
you go there and I don't knowwho knows, he might shut you
down with that one, that's, Imean that's.
So I hear the passion and andand and you know your drive
behind that.
What's, what's holding you backfrom doing it full time?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It is the fact that I , you know, I I still have to
work a nine to five becauseright now my brand is not I'm
building my brand.
Still I've got a small enoughfollowing that it, you know,
gives me like a little bit oflike, you know it's a little bit
of residual income, but it'sdefinitely not enough to sustain
me.
And so right now I'm in thatphase of trying to market myself
, trying to get myself out therefor people to really recognize
(17:19):
that hey, she's got a nicedifferent type of apparel line
and she's got a good travelagency.
And when I build that followingup big enough where I could,
you know, walk away from thatnine to five, I absolutely I
will be on the first thingsmoking away from there to do it
full time.
So I think it's just a, it's aprocess, it's just it's going to
(17:43):
take time.
Unfortunately, I am a team ofone, so I do this all by myself.
All the time I eat, drink,sleep, breathe, my businesses.
Sometimes, even when I'm on theclock at my regular job, I'm
thinking about something with mybusinesses.
But I think, at the end of theday, even if I didn't make a
(18:04):
dime doing any of these things,at the end of the day, even if I
didn't make a dime doing any ofthese things I do my side jobs.
I actually feel fulfilled withthose because at the end of the
day, with those I bet on myself,I found my purpose and I feel
like I can take that to the bankall day.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I love that and listen, you're going to get
there.
And we have entrepreneurs thatare on here from all different
stages, uh, and, and they oftenstart like this yeah, yeah, you
know, the thing that tends towork for people is to find that
one niche, that one persona thatyou help over and over and over
and, uh, you know, if you canmake money from just doing your
love of just, hey, I go to, I goto disney for the latest thing
and I get the new one, I, youknow, whatever awesome,
(18:44):
fantastic, I it, and if you makeyour videos for that niche, you
may not ever need to go bookanything.
You might just make money frompeople watching you go.
So I love it, since, kind offiring up your businesses and
they sound like they're growingand you know, or at least have
some kind of growth or they addvalue beyond just, just beyond
the thing you love to do it,what's what's kind of been the
(19:06):
impact for your life?
Or for even I think let's focuson you what's been the impact
on your life for having thiskind of other channel, if you
will?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Um, it really honestly, it gave me a purpose
because I felt like, you know, Ispent the first 20 years of my
career, you know, chasing a bagand it's like that's nice,
you've got the money, you've gotthe nice things, but you still
kind of feel like, is this, itIs this how I'm supposed to be
doing?
Is this, is this like making mehappy?
(19:36):
And ultimately, like this, thisyeah, I got this Gucci bag, I
got this Louis purse, you knowwhatever, but it didn't really
feel purposeful for me.
Um, so I felt like it gave me apurpose, cause I stopped
chasing a bag and startedchasing the purpose.
Um, it also opened up my worldto meet like-minded individuals.
(20:02):
I mean, I didn't know there wassuch a big community of Disney
adults.
I didn't know there was such abig community of people who like
to look good when they go tothe gym and just don't throw on
some just old funky shirt andjust like, hey, I'm going to the
gym, you know, I'm just like,hey, I'm going to the gym, you
know.
So it created a sense ofcommunity, especially for me who
came from someplace tosomeplace new, where I did not
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have a sense of community,didn't have a lot of people that
I knew.
I like literally all my friendshere initially were people who
I knew from where I came from.
It's like that doesn't reallyopen you up to new people, so it
created a sense of communitythat I never really really had.
The other thing it also and Iknow some people say this might
seem negative, but to me it'snot a negative it showed me who
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was on my team and who wasreally rooting for me to succeed
, and it showed me who justwanted a front seat to see if I
was going to fail.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I like that.
I mean.
The next question is alwayslike you know, what are you most
grateful for?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
no-transcript.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So, as you, as you've progressed, I mean, what is
some of the best business adviceyou've received?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The best, oh wow, Um, best is advice.
I actually heard this recently.
Somebody told me don't let yourhabits hold you hostage,
Because if you keep doing whatyou've always done, you're going
to get what you've always got,and if that's not what you want,
you're just going to run aroundin that hamster wheel for
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forever.
And so you have to grow andlearn and realize when some
whether it's a tactic, whetherit's a practice, whether it's a
thought process when somethingdoesn't serve you anymore, you
got to let it go and findsomething new.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That's great and that's I mean, that's the whole
principle behind cut the tie ischallenge, whatever you believe
to do, or you know or acceptedor made an excuse for, and if it
holds you back from the thingyou just defined as success, you
let it go of it.
Yeah, you cut it away.
Sometimes you can let go,sometimes you got to cut it and
so this, it doesn't matter, it'sone of the same.
In in the waiting of the actionof doing that versus the
(22:34):
benefit of it is usually what'sat the.
There's usually a tipping point.
You're like, yep, that's easy,and so off it goes, absolutely.
Is there a book that you'veread that's been really
inspirational and one you'drecommend to others?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yes, it's called she Thinks Like a Boss.
It's by Gemma Rodell.
I actually started reading thatin my corporate life, but it
actually has been worth it in myentrepreneurial life as well,
because she talks really abouthow to be a leader even when you
feel like you were in a roomthat you don't belong in, even
(23:08):
when you feel like you know youlike, that you have that
imposter syndrome of like I'm ata table and nobody knows I have
no idea what I'm doing or whatI'm talking about.
And it talks about how to stilldisplay those leadership
(23:31):
qualities when you might have anintroverted personality or you
might be shy, or you might justbe quiet.
Because that's me Like.
I am a very I'm not really shy,but I am very introverted and
I'm a pretty quiet person untilyou get to know me.
Then it's like, oh my God, shutup.
But I am pretty reserved untilI'm comfortable.
And in this world you have towalk into rooms and be
comfortable, like automatically,or you will get drowned out by
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the people who do have thatextroverted personality and who
are out there and promotingtheir brand and are loud about
it.
So that has really helped mebecause I have put myself out
there.
You know I go to business exposall the time.
Actually, I will be in an expoas a vendor for the first time
at the end of this year but Iwould go to these expos and just
(24:15):
kind of watch and see, likewhat does this, what happens
here?
Like how loud do you need to behere?
Like what do you need to besuccessful here?
And so that has been reallyhelpful for somebody who, like
me, who is, who is not very, whostruggles with promoting
themselves, to walk in and withall the confidence.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Confidence even if you don't feel it to fake it
till you make it you know, well,I, I say you know, I meet a lot
of, uh, individuals that arelike yourself, that's like oh,
how do I just let your workspeak for you?
And you know, and you can't.
You can't wear someone else'ssuit, you can't be something
you're not yeah and the halfthat will identify with the
(24:58):
extrovert loud, if you will, uh,will.
The other half will be like, ah, I kind of like that quiet
person who's just humbly thereand I like their product.
So there, there's a, there's ahalf of both and there's.
You know, if you're like in acorner, like I don't even want
to put my stuff up, that's adifferent issue.
But yeah, uh, maybe.
Last question if there's aquestion, maybe I should have
asked you and did not.
What would that question havebeen?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I would say the question is maybe my personal
philosophy, um, which would beand I think I alluded to it a
little bit earlier was to findsomething you love and get good
at it.
Don't necessarily be good atsomething and then try to love
it.
I think there are so manypeople who are out here and
(25:46):
they're living through life andthey're working their businesses
and whatever it may be, butthey're doing it without a
purpose or they're helpingsomebody else build their brand
and build their business, thatyou have to find your dream, you
have to bank on yourself.
I think there are so many and Ithink what stops a lot of
people is that there are so manypeople who don't do, they don't
(26:09):
try and pursue their dreams andthey don't try to live their.
Those, you know, go towardsthose goals because they're
scared they're going to fail.
But my thought, my personalphilosophy, is like, yeah, you
might fail towards those goalsbecause they're scared they're
going to fail.
But my thought, my personalphilosophy, is like, yeah, you
might fail, but what if you fly?
And you'll never know unlessyou try.
And so that's just basicallyhow I try to go through life.
Is I definitely have thosethree o'clock in the morning I
(26:32):
wake up in a full blown sweatbecause I'm like, oh my God, I
put all my money into this andwhat's going to happen.
But I'm like, but what if youfly?
Just keep going.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I love it.
I'm going to challenge you.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
When you no longer have a safety net is when your
real entrepreneur hatchingbegins, and what I mean by that
is some point you'll exit yourbusiness and it'll be wherever
it is.
I think we'll do it tomorrow,so don't take that.
But when you do it, you'regoing to be like you know, we
(27:06):
all make these.
It's like, oh shit, no moreexcuses, I don't have nine hours
a day to travel and go.
Do you know, work, I have to donine hours for me.
Now, all that you'll it'll,it'll transform you when that
happens, because you, you're um,you just it opens something you
can never find unless it's gone.
But anyway, so I will, I willchallenge you to come back on
(27:27):
the show when you're like, well,I got laid off and now I'm
doing a full time, um, you'llhave that feeling take a breath,
maybe go don't go to disney,because you're gonna need your
money but like, yeah, just relax, because you're about to go,
really, really get into it.
And I think, uh, I, I lookforward to that moment for you
because it's coming thank you somuch.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm I'm excited, I'm absolutely excited.
I appreciate you can't go todisney.
I have a series coming out ofmy youtube channel.
I just my last trip I didDisney under $500.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That should be a video that takes off.
It's a per person perfume.
I'll watch that one becauseevery time I say the word Disney
, I just somebody took $500 fromme.
Yeah, I just did it.
They get almost out of me ayear just in the
DisneyChannelcom.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I know right All right?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Shameless plug time.
Who should get?
This is a good.
I want you to pick one of yourbusinesses.
Okay, who should get a hold ofyou?
And how do they do that for oneof your businesses?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Anybody who loves the magic of Disney and wants to
remember what it feels like tobe a kid when you don't have all
the responsibility to be anadult and just the stress of
being an adult and you want togo escape and remember that
magic.
Call me.
How do they do that?
Um, so I have a YouTube.
Um, I have a.
Oh gosh, I have a uh YouTube.
This is by Danny.
Um, uh, I'm on Facebook underFirebird Travel Agency.
My email is Firebird TravelAgency.
(29:02):
I don't email myself, so I gotto look it up.
I think it's Firebird TravelAgency 3 at gmailcom.
And then I also have a website,but the website is listed on
the Facebook page.
So because I don't look at mywebsite either, so I don't
really remember those off thetop of my head.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
We're going to help you get marketed so you can get
out of your job full time.
I can feel it.
Thank you for joining me today.
I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Thank you so much, thomas, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
And listen anybody who got to this point in the
show.
Thank you so much for listening, watching.
If you've been here before,thanks for coming back, and if
this is your first time, I hopeit's the first of many.
I hope you all start cuttingties of whatever's holding you
back and the success that I hopeyou've defined for yourself.
Get out there, go cut a tie andunleash the best version of
yourself.
Welcome to the Cut the Tie podcast.
Hi, I'm your host, thomasHelfer, and I'm on a mission to
help you cut the tie to whateverit is holding you back from
success, and the success thatyou've defined for yourself, not
success that someone else hasdefined for you.
And I'm joined today byDanielle Turner.
Ms Turner, how are you?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello, I'm doing well .
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm good.
I really like your broadcastnetwork here in Atlanta and all
the things you've built throughthe years.
No, not Zed Turner.
Take a moment just to introduceyourself and what it is you do.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So my name is Danielle.
I actually I own two businesses.
I have a travel agency and Ihave a newly rebranded fitness
apparel company Plus.
I work a nine to five.
So I'm a newly rebrandedfitness apparel company, plus I
work a nine to five.
So I'm a busy girl.
My travel agency I tell peopleall the time I am a travel agent
(00:55):
that specializes in Disney.
I am not a Disney travel agent,but because I love all things
related to the mouse, it justmade sense to specialize in
Disney.
And then I own a fitnessapparel company.
It started out as just a basict-shirt company and it just
slowly took a new form into afitness apparel company.
(01:17):
So busy, busy, busy, busy.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Do you find yourself in the entrepreneur or
entrepreneur?
You feel like everything you'redoing is turning to shit or
you're like I'm just sidehustling stuff until it gets
taken off more.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This is the side hustles until they take it out
Like I'm.
This is my, my passive incomethat's going to ride me into
retirement.
So that's where I'm at.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I'm going to come out of order.
Why not just make it what youdo now?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know, if it gets to that point one day, I will
gladly take it.
I mean, yeah, I'd gladly likestop doing the hustle and bustle
of the nine to five and work onmy businesses all the time.
But as of right now, I stillgot to eat, so I still got to do
the nine to five.
You know, still need a roofover my head.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, we'll talk about that in your journey a
little bit.
But you know, as entrepreneurswho are listening and watching
here, you know it's great tostart a side hustle.
I mean if you don't hate yourjob, and it's okay, it's
enjoyable, it pays well,whatever else, you know it's a
security and it's and it issecure.
That's a great way to bebecause the extra money you make
it's fun, it's it's like you,it actually keeps the.
(02:29):
The nine to five sometimes atleast I found was enjoyable
because you're like your mind isactually working on something.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, no, you're still working somewhere yeah,
and the thing is you, you meetpeople on your nine to five who,
when you tell them about yourside, hustle they.
They're like oh, I'm into that.
And then you find new customerswhere you're not even really
trying.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
That's great, I love it.
It works.
Before we get into your sidehustles and your journey a
little bit, I want you to definesuccess on your terms.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Um, success on my terms is actually doing
something you love and thatyou're having a good time doing
it, to the point where itdoesn't feel like work.
Um, I think that's the best wayI can define it, because I
think we've all been to that jobwhere you wake up angry because
you got to go to work, you sitin the parking lot with the
attitude because you got to goin the building and then you sit
there grumpy all day longbecause you got to be there and
you clock watch all day long.
And then the finalist when youwalk out of the building.
But you know you got to get upin the morning and do it again
(03:34):
the next day.
To me, success is when thisdoes not feel like a job and you
lose track of time becauseyou're enjoying what you're
doing.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I like where you're at with that.
I can see where your goal isgoing.
You want to just not work butmake money.
There's a difference.
That is a great definition.
Your success definition willabsolutely change once you get
to that.
It's going to immediately flip.
As soon as you get to that,you're like new one.
I like that.
That's a solid definitionbecause it's in the moment, it's
(04:06):
real, it's now, but it's alsoit sounds like a giant motivator
for you to get there.
Like I said, oftentimes otherthings are secure when you can
have that dream Like I'm justtrying to get financially secure
, I want more time with myfamily.
You're like no, I want this,this is for me and I want to do
that.
And I want to do that becauseyou got one life.
I like yeah yeah.
Fantastic.
Um, tell me about your journeya little bit and, given that you
(04:27):
define success, you know theway you have what's been the
biggest kind of tie to startworking towards that, or the
biggest tie you've had to cut,or what the restrictions are to
help you get to that Cause.
You're not quite there yet, butit sounds like that's a success
definition.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What are you gonna do about it?
Tell me about your journey.
So the way I actually got here.
So I started my t-shirt company.
First, both of my businessesactually were born literally out
of the worst times of my life.
I had been working.
I've been working since I was15 years old and never been
fired, never been laid off,never, literally, would go from
when I decided to change a job,go from one job, maybe have a
(05:07):
couple of weeks off, and intothe next one, Never really had
any time off.
And then I got my dreamcorporate job and then I got
laid off from it and you wouldhave thought the world was about
to cave in the way.
I was like, oh my God, I'venever been unemployed in my life
.
And so sitting there just kindof thinking like, well, what am
(05:30):
I going to do while I'm in theprocess of looking for a job?
At the time my daughter hadjust went off to college and I'm
like, well, you know what, letme, let me figure out something
creative, cause I've always beenkind of creative.
So I'm like, let me figure outsomething creative to do.
So that's how the t-shirtcompany was born, with the
intention of pass this off toher Once I get a job which I
eventually got a job like sixmonths I got a job I'm going to
(05:53):
pass this off to her.
It'll be a passive stream ofincome for her.
She can take it and run with itand it's hers.
And then she was like I want todo that, you can keep that.
So I was like, oh okay, um, andso then I literally just kind
of put it on hold for a littlewhile because it was not, it
wasn't a passion for me, it wasa.
It was a.
(06:13):
It was like a means to an endfor me at that point, um and
then moved to Atlanta, um fromMilwaukee and trying to figure
out what to do.
Um, um from Milwaukee andtrying to figure out what to do,
um, uh, a friend and a goodmentor of mine who, um, actually
is a real estate agent, sold meand sold me my house and then
(06:33):
sold it.
When I sold it, Um, she's likehey, uh, I got this travel
agency business.
What do you think?
And I'm like she's like youlove to travel.
I know you love, love Disney.
I think this might be a goodfit for you.
Just think about it, check itout.
So I took a couple months,thought about it, check.
I was like you know what, yeah,this, this could be fun, this
could probably be fun.
(06:54):
Atlanta was a rough transitionfor me, so I was just, oh gosh,
it was rough.
Coming from the Midwest to atotally different culture,
totally different I mean side ofthe country, it was just raw
for me.
And so I'm like, well, yeah, Ijust I need something to do.
(07:14):
So sure, I'll try it.
And fell in love with it,totally immersed myself in it,
figured out, oh, I can do thiswith this and I can do this with
this, and just and and justkind of went like on this
tangent on both sides of I cando both of them and I can do
this, and started having a ballwith both of them.
Um, I totally rebranded thet-shirt company into a fitness
(07:34):
apparel company because I'm like, if I'm going to do this, I
need to do something that Ienjoy and that I love.
I don't really care aboutt-shirts, but I do care about
fitness.
So let's turn this into afitness apparel company and
we'll do kind of a little bit ofeverything.
So I think the but the tie thatI really had to cut was the
mindset of that.
(07:56):
I needed some type of specialskillset to build my businesses
or to be successful in mybusinesses.
I'm not, like, a marketingexpert, I'm not a finance expert
, but I've always had a head forbusiness, like I can see a good
idea and I know how to build onthat idea and grow that idea.
And I've had several business.
(08:17):
I've always been, like, kind ofhad that entrepreneurial
mindset.
I've had more businesses failthan I've had succeed, because I
did things that I was good atbut I didn't necessarily care
about or that I didn't, where Ireally didn't love.
So this time I kind of decidedlet me flip the script and let
me find something I love andthen get really good at it.
And that's where where I'm atright now.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I like that.
You're a, but what was thebiggest time of what part of the
mindset that you could do it?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It was actually I had to.
It was the mindset that I hadto have like a business degree
or like I have to know how torun a business from end to end
and all that stuff.
Because I don't.
I'm winging it and figuring itout as I go and if sometimes I
do stuff and I'm like that was aterrible idea, I mean sometimes
(09:10):
I think that was a great idea.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So that's and listen, I think what you find is a lot
of uh.
This is where coaching reallyhelps, if you can make the
investment.
Uh, because you know I wouldhave benefited myself five years
ago.
Not the autobiography, but justyou.
You know, I moved from the westtwo down here to atlanta.
I'm not pretty easy becauseit's warmer, it's nicer and you
know, whatever.
But all right, that part's easyand you know anyway we won't go
(09:33):
down that.
But but the, the.
The point being is, uh, fiveyears ago, you just fake it till
you make it kind of like I'llfigure this out, you know, you
just kind of, you do the bestyou can based on the training
you've had in life, right, anduh, and then you figure out that
other people are kind of justguessing and you just and you
and then, but then you get allover the place and I will say
that in anyone listening it'syou would have saved a lot of
(09:55):
money in time If you had a coach.
That would just 90 days get you, just get you pointed in the
right direction.
I say that prominently.
I do this coaching and not the.
You know anyway, the pointbeing is, when I see people do
this, they're so much more, theyhave more clarity than ever,
because they're like, okay, Iwas going to try, like, don't
try that, but here's why that'sgoing to.
It's going to move you thin,stay narrow, anyway.
(10:17):
So it's perfect.
And you discovered somethingthat happens a lot often with
with an entrepreneur, right Isthat it's the three P's, because
I call it so you have your,your passion, your, uh, your
potential, which are your skills, and then your, the problem you
solve.
And if you don't have all threeof those of solid size, meaning
like you have no passion, thelittle Venn diagrams too small
(10:38):
for you to focus, and if youhave no potential, you can't do
it.
And if there's no problem,you're actually solving that
people, you just can't do it.
So you, you solve that by like,oh, I gotta get the passion
bubble up because I don't careabout this, so let's get
something we care about.
I love that wonderful, um, okay, so do you remember the moment,
do you remember the moment whenyou knew, oh, my gosh, I had to
(10:58):
change my mindset?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
um, um, yes.
So two businesses, twodifferent moments.
The first moment with thet-shirt company was with the
moment of I built this businessup.
Like, I mean, I did all thework.
I got my LLC, I own mytrademark, I put a lot of work
(11:21):
into starting this business up,business up.
And then, when my daughter saidI don't really want to do this,
I'm like, well, okay, and itsat dormant for a few years.
Um, and I'm like you put allthis money and all this work and
you, you've got a closet fullof inventory that you're not
even trying to sell because youjust don't care that much about
it.
Um, I think that was the ahamoment of what do you care about
(11:42):
?
Because you built this up toofar to let it go?
Um, of what do you care aboutbecause you built this up too
far to let it go?
Um, so what do you care about?
And then I realized I'm like,well, I like to work out, I like
fitness and I like I like the.
I think that a lot of people,you see that you go to the gym,
you see people and they've gotthe.
You know, they got the muscleshirts on and they got their
(12:02):
racer racks on and they, youknow, whatever, but it doesn't
everybody looks the same.
So I'm like I racks on and they, you know whatever, but it
doesn't everybody looks the same.
So I'm like I want somethingthat's going to.
You know you're going to getyour workout in, but you
showcase your personality.
So I'm like take your love ofthe quirky saying on a t-shirt
and take your love of fitnessand put them together and there
you go.
So I think that was the the theaha moment with that one.
(12:25):
That was the aha moment withthat one With the travel agency.
It was the moment of rememberingwhy or how I got into it.
Like, how did you get to thispoint?
Versus, just okay, I love totravel.
I can send people on trips.
Anybody can go on any searchengine and book themselves a
trip.
Why use me?
Like, what makes me special?
(12:48):
The way I fell in love withtravel was when I had gotten
laid off from my job.
I was so down and so low andI'm like I just needed to find
something that would just makeme smile a little bit.
And at that point it wasliterally watching YouTube
videos of Disney rides andDisney POVs and and vloggers,
(13:09):
like walking around the parksand telling you about the new
food and telling you about thisand telling you about that, and
that was like the only thingthat kind of kept me up and
positive during that time periodin my life.
And so I spent years, likeyears, sitting every night like
it was my job, sitting thereevery night watching those
videos, and when my mentor waslike you know more about Disney
(13:30):
than anybody I know, why are younot working, like to do
something with this?
And I'm like, yeah, the momentfor that.
A couple of years ago I took myme and my brother did a
sibling's trip to Disney.
He had been to Disney beforebut he had always been with,
like his kids and his grandkidsand he went to like the like
(13:50):
Magic Kingdom, like the like thekid parks.
My favorite part is Epcot andso I took him.
I'm like we're going to go toEpcot and so we're in Epcot and
I'm telling him about this andlike all this history I mean
just random Disney facts thatnobody but a Disney nerd would
know and he is looking at me andhe was like what you could work
for Disney.
He was like I would never have.
(14:12):
I'm like you know, yeah, thiswall here.
They have to block this walloff because you know, people
would drink around the WorldPavilion and they get drunk and
they try to climb the Mexicowall and that's why they put
this, this big wall here.
And he was like, why do youknow this stuff?
And so I thought about it andI'm like what agent, what that
doesn't specialize in Disneywould know this stuff to tell
(14:33):
somebody who wants to book atrip?
This stuff, what agent would beable to tell somebody, hey, if
you go to this park at this timeof day, on this day in the sun
shines on this site you'll see ahidden mini Mickey silhouette
that only shows up one day ofthe year it happens to be on
Mickey and Minnie's anniversaryand they're like, who would know
that, besides somebody like me?
(14:54):
And so that's when I was like,take that and turn that into
something.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Did you take some of that information to make your
own YouTube videos off of that?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I also have a YouTube channel, that's a boy.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
It's usually a compliment and from a marketing
standpoint, uh, verify you as,hey, I really know disney and
watch my channel.
I'll give you some insight.
You'll never.
You know you people, and you'rejust you know, you, just you
know, take it yep, so I I dohave a a youtube you got a shape
of the plugger right now.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
This is okay, it's called.
It's called this by daddy disdis um short for disney's called
.
It's called Diz by Danny DizD-I-S short for Disney.
It's it's.
So.
It's not all Disney content.
It's because I live in Atlanta.
I can't go to the parks all thetime.
I just did a Disney series andI'm like uploading those videos
right now.
I was just in Disney two weeksago.
So what it is?
(15:43):
It supports my travel agencybecause what I do is I go around
Atlanta also and I have thisseries called Tourist in your
Own Town, and so I go arounddifferent parts of Atlanta and
showcase like, hey, if you evercome to Atlanta to visit, we've
got this, we've got that, here'ssome history, here's something
fun to do.
You know that type of stuff.
And then I also get to theparks as often as I can and then
(16:04):
I upload those videos and doPOV of Disney and I think my
niche.
That I say is because my kidsare grown and so is to.
You can still be a Disney adult, you can still go to Disney and
not look like a weirdo becauseyou're an adult by yourself with
no children, and have a blast,which I absolutely did.
I wore myself out, but I had agood time.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I think you need to move to Florida and just get the
pass.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
That's probably going to be the next move.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Or be like, but like, if you can be like, hey, listen
, I'll, I'll, I'll.
Uh, you know you can be aguided tour of Disney, like when
you go there and I don't knowwho knows, he might shut you
down with that one, that's, Imean that's.
So I hear the passion and andand and you know your drive
behind that.
What's, what's holding you backfrom doing it full time?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It is the fact that I , you know, I I still have to
work a nine to five becauseright now my brand is not I'm
building my brand.
Still I've got a small enoughfollowing that it, you know,
gives me like a little bit oflike, you know it's a little bit
of residual income, but it'sdefinitely not enough to sustain
me.
And so right now I'm in thatphase of trying to market myself
, trying to get myself out therefor people to really recognize
(17:19):
that hey, she's got a nicedifferent type of apparel line
and she's got a good travelagency.
And when I build that followingup big enough where I could,
you know, walk away from thatnine to five, I absolutely I
will be on the first thingsmoking away from there to do it
full time.
So I think it's just a, it's aprocess, it's just it's going to
(17:43):
take time.
Unfortunately, I am a team ofone, so I do this all by myself.
All the time I eat, drink,sleep, breathe, my businesses.
Sometimes, even when I'm on theclock at my regular job, I'm
thinking about something with mybusinesses.
But I think, at the end of theday, even if I didn't make a
(18:04):
dime doing any of these things,at the end of the day, even if I
didn't make a dime doing any ofthese things I do my side jobs.
I actually feel fulfilled withthose because at the end of the
day, with those I bet on myself,I found my purpose and I feel
like I can take that to the bankall day.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I love that and listen, you're going to get
there.
And we have entrepreneurs thatare on here from all different
stages, uh, and, and they oftenstart like this yeah, yeah, you
know, the thing that tends towork for people is to find that
one niche, that one persona thatyou help over and over and over
and, uh, you know, if you canmake money from just doing your
love of just, hey, I go to, I goto disney for the latest thing
and I get the new one, I, youknow, whatever awesome,
(18:44):
fantastic, I it, and if you makeyour videos for that niche, you
may not ever need to go bookanything.
You might just make money frompeople watching you go.
So I love it, since, kind offiring up your businesses and
they sound like they're growingand you know, or at least have
some kind of growth or they addvalue beyond just, just beyond
the thing you love to do it,what's what's kind of been the
(19:06):
impact for your life?
Or for even I think let's focuson you what's been the impact
on your life for having thiskind of other channel, if you
will?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Um, it really honestly, it gave me a purpose
because I felt like, you know, Ispent the first 20 years of my
career, you know, chasing a bagand it's like that's nice,
you've got the money, you've gotthe nice things, but you still
kind of feel like, is this, itIs this how I'm supposed to be
doing?
Is this, is this like making mehappy?
(19:36):
And ultimately, like this, thisyeah, I got this Gucci bag, I
got this Louis purse, you knowwhatever, but it didn't really
feel purposeful for me.
Um, so I felt like it gave me apurpose, cause I stopped
chasing a bag and startedchasing the purpose.
Um, it also opened up my worldto meet like-minded individuals.
(20:02):
I mean, I didn't know there wassuch a big community of Disney
adults.
I didn't know there was such abig community of people who like
to look good when they go tothe gym and just don't throw on
some just old funky shirt andjust like, hey, I'm going to the
gym, you know, I'm just like,hey, I'm going to the gym, you
know.
So it created a sense ofcommunity, especially for me who
came from someplace tosomeplace new, where I did not
(20:23):
have a sense of community,didn't have a lot of people that
I knew.
I like literally all my friendshere initially were people who
I knew from where I came from.
It's like that doesn't reallyopen you up to new people, so it
created a sense of communitythat I never really really had.
The other thing it also and Iknow some people say this might
seem negative, but to me it'snot a negative it showed me who
(20:46):
was on my team and who wasreally rooting for me to succeed
, and it showed me who justwanted a front seat to see if I
was going to fail.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I like that.
I mean.
The next question is alwayslike you know, what are you most
grateful for?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
no-transcript.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So, as you, as you've progressed, I mean, what is
some of the best business adviceyou've received?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
The best, oh wow, Um, best is advice.
I actually heard this recently.
Somebody told me don't let yourhabits hold you hostage,
Because if you keep doing whatyou've always done, you're going
to get what you've always got,and if that's not what you want,
you're just going to run aroundin that hamster wheel for
(21:56):
forever.
And so you have to grow andlearn and realize when some
whether it's a tactic, whetherit's a practice, whether it's a
thought process when somethingdoesn't serve you anymore, you
got to let it go and findsomething new.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
That's great and that's I mean, that's the whole
principle behind cut the tie ischallenge, whatever you believe
to do, or you know or acceptedor made an excuse for, and if it
holds you back from the thingyou just defined as success, you
let it go of it.
Yeah, you cut it away.
Sometimes you can let go,sometimes you got to cut it and
so this, it doesn't matter, it'sone of the same.
In in the waiting of the actionof doing that versus the
(22:34):
benefit of it is usually what'sat the.
There's usually a tipping point.
You're like, yep, that's easy,and so off it goes, absolutely.
Is there a book that you'veread that's been really
inspirational and one you'drecommend to others?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yes, it's called she Thinks Like a Boss.
It's by Gemma Rodell.
I actually started reading thatin my corporate life, but it
actually has been worth it in myentrepreneurial life as well,
because she talks really abouthow to be a leader even when you
feel like you were in a roomthat you don't belong in, even
(23:08):
when you feel like you know youlike, that you have that
imposter syndrome of like I'm ata table and nobody knows I have
no idea what I'm doing or whatI'm talking about.
And it talks about how to stilldisplay those leadership
(23:31):
qualities when you might have anintroverted personality or you
might be shy, or you might justbe quiet.
Because that's me Like.
I am a very I'm not really shy,but I am very introverted and
I'm a pretty quiet person untilyou get to know me.
Then it's like, oh my God, shutup.
But I am pretty reserved untilI'm comfortable.
And in this world you have towalk into rooms and be
comfortable, like automatically,or you will get drowned out by
(23:53):
the people who do have thatextroverted personality and who
are out there and promotingtheir brand and are loud about
it.
So that has really helped mebecause I have put myself out
there.
You know I go to business exposall the time.
Actually, I will be in an expoas a vendor for the first time
at the end of this year but Iwould go to these expos and just
(24:15):
kind of watch and see, likewhat does this, what happens
here?
Like how loud do you need to behere?
Like what do you need to besuccessful here?
And so that has been reallyhelpful for somebody who, like
me, who is, who is not very, whostruggles with promoting
themselves, to walk in and withall the confidence.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Confidence even if you don't feel it to fake it
till you make it you know, well,I, I say you know, I meet a lot
of, uh, individuals that arelike yourself, that's like oh,
how do I just let your workspeak for you?
And you know, and you can't.
You can't wear someone else'ssuit, you can't be something
you're not yeah and the halfthat will identify with the
(24:58):
extrovert loud, if you will, uh,will.
The other half will be like, ah, I kind of like that quiet
person who's just humbly thereand I like their product.
So there, there's a, there's ahalf of both and there's.
You know, if you're like in acorner, like I don't even want
to put my stuff up, that's adifferent issue.
But yeah, uh, maybe.
Last question if there's aquestion, maybe I should have
asked you and did not.
What would that question havebeen?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I would say the question is maybe my personal
philosophy, um, which would beand I think I alluded to it a
little bit earlier was to findsomething you love and get good
at it.
Don't necessarily be good atsomething and then try to love
it.
I think there are so manypeople who are out here and
(25:46):
they're living through life andthey're working their businesses
and whatever it may be, butthey're doing it without a
purpose or they're helpingsomebody else build their brand
and build their business, thatyou have to find your dream, you
have to bank on yourself.
I think there are so many and Ithink what stops a lot of
people is that there are so manypeople who don't do, they don't
(26:09):
try and pursue their dreams andthey don't try to live their.
Those, you know, go towardsthose goals because they're
scared they're going to fail.
But my thought, my personalphilosophy, is like, yeah, you
might fail towards those goalsbecause they're scared they're
going to fail.
But my thought, my personalphilosophy, is like, yeah, you
might fail, but what if you fly?
And you'll never know unlessyou try.
And so that's just basicallyhow I try to go through life.
Is I definitely have thosethree o'clock in the morning I
(26:32):
wake up in a full blown sweatbecause I'm like, oh my God, I
put all my money into this andwhat's going to happen.
But I'm like, but what if youfly?
Just keep going.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I love it.
I'm going to challenge you.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
When you no longer have a safety net is when your
real entrepreneur hatchingbegins, and what I mean by that
is some point you'll exit yourbusiness and it'll be wherever
it is.
I think we'll do it tomorrow,so don't take that.
But when you do it, you'regoing to be like you know, we
(27:06):
all make these.
It's like, oh shit, no moreexcuses, I don't have nine hours
a day to travel and go.
Do you know, work, I have to donine hours for me.
Now, all that you'll it'll,it'll transform you when that
happens, because you, you're um,you just it opens something you
can never find unless it's gone.
But anyway, so I will, I willchallenge you to come back on
(27:27):
the show when you're like, well,I got laid off and now I'm
doing a full time, um, you'llhave that feeling take a breath,
maybe go don't go to disney,because you're gonna need your
money but like, yeah, just relax, because you're about to go,
really, really get into it.
And I think, uh, I, I lookforward to that moment for you
because it's coming thank you somuch.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I'm I'm excited, I'm absolutely excited.
I appreciate you can't go todisney.
I have a series coming out ofmy youtube channel.
I just my last trip I didDisney under $500.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That should be a video that takes off.
It's a per person perfume.
I'll watch that one becauseevery time I say the word Disney
, I just somebody took $500 fromme.
Yeah, I just did it.
They get almost out of me ayear just in the
DisneyChannelcom.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
I know right All right?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Shameless plug time.
Who should get?
This is a good.
I want you to pick one of yourbusinesses.
Okay, who should get a hold ofyou?
And how do they do that for oneof your businesses?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Anybody who loves the magic of Disney and wants to
remember what it feels like tobe a kid when you don't have all
the responsibility to be anadult and just the stress of
being an adult and you want togo escape and remember that
magic.
Call me.
How do they do that?
Um, so I have a YouTube.
Um, I have a.
Oh gosh, I have a uh YouTube.
This is by Danny.
Um, uh, I'm on Facebook underFirebird Travel Agency.
My email is Firebird TravelAgency.
(29:02):
I don't email myself, so I gotto look it up.
I think it's Firebird TravelAgency 3 at gmailcom.
And then I also have a website,but the website is listed on
the Facebook page.
So because I don't look at mywebsite either, so I don't
really remember those off thetop of my head.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
We're going to help you get marketed so you can get
out of your job full time.
I can feel it.
Thank you for joining me today.
I really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Thank you so much, thomas, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
And listen anybody who got to this point in the
show.
Thank you so much for listening, watching.
If you've been here before,thanks for coming back, and if
this is your first time, I hopeit's the first of many.
I hope you all start cuttingties of whatever's holding you
back and the success that I hopeyou've defined for yourself.
Get out there, go cut a tie andunleash the best version of
yourself.
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